Known originally by the name of its first commander, Col. Thomas Marshall of Boston, Marshall's Regiment first distinguished itself during the Saratoga campaign, shivered through the winter at Valley Forge and sweltered in the heat at the Battle of Monmouth.
Re-designated the Tenth Massachusetts in 1779, the regiment spent the balance of the war with the army in the Hudson Highlands, besieging British forces in New York.
One company of the regiment, originally commanded by Captain Amasa Soper of Dartmouth, Mass., was eventually designated as the Light Infantry Company and saw considerable detached service, participating in the assault and capture of British positions at Stony Point, NY in 1779, and at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781.
The original Tenth Massachusetts was disbanded at the end of the war in 1783. Today's recreated regiment seeks to perpetuate the lives and experiences of those men and women who sacrificed so much for America's independence.
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